Archivarix Broken Links Recovery
by Archivarix Support · WordPress.org page · Website
Archivarix Broken Links Recovery has 200+ active installs on WordPress.org and 2,340 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on May 24, 2026, tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
Archivarix Broken Links Recovery at a glance
Is Archivarix Broken Links Recovery well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Multi-level link checking
- Automatic mode: Replaces broken links with Web Archive copies using the post date as timestamp. Falls back to removing links when archive is unavailable
- Manual mode: Full control — review each broken link and choose the action
- Internal link checking: Validates internal links against WordPress database and HTTP verification
- Background processing: Scans run in the background without blocking your site
- Scan sources: Posts, pages, custom post types, comments, custom fields, widgets, Elementor content
- Proxy support: Configure HTTP proxies for external link checking to avoid rate limiting
- Detailed logs: Every check and action is logged for review
- Bulk actions: Fix multiple links at once
- WP-CLI & multisite: Scan and fix from the command line (wp ablr scan), and across a multisite network without logging into each site (wp ablr scan --network)
- AI-ready (WordPress 7.0): Scan, list and fix operations are registered with the Abilities API and available over REST and MCP, so custom dashboards and AI…
Archivarix Broken Links Recovery reviews and ratings
1 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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Very good start
Promising plugin and off to an excellent start. I have a website that has nearly 20 years of content, so you can imagine how many broken links I might have. This one scans them in one of the most performant ways I have seen in these types of plugins - it's about as fast as you could expect given the nature of the checking process is inherently slow. Everything is written to a couple of database tables that are well-designed, so you can easily check those directly and understand what is going on if you are comfortable with MySQL. The interface is simple and easy to understand and navigate, and it performs well, too. And the idea overall - linking to a past snapshot of a link - is a fantastic alternative to just leaving a link broken. It desperately needs two things to make it even better: An exclusion list to skip entirely for scans (for sites that you know beforehand are ok or will return false positives). This would have dramatically sped up the checking time for my site, and I am sure I am not the only one. A method to filter out entirely anything that has already been fixed. This is important because you can easily end up "fixing" links more than once and the plugin is not smart enough to skip items you've already fixed, which can make for some interesting URLs (where the webarchive URL prefix is prepended recursively, making the link totally useless). Especially important on a site like mine with upwards of 20000 links. The recovery feature is nice but it also does not work in those circumstances, so your only option is restoring from a database backup and doing it all over (or a LOT of manual cleanup).
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Details
Finds broken external and internal links and replaces them with Web Archive copies or manages them manually.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- broken links
- dead links
- link checker
- Wayback Machine
- web-archive
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- Requires WordPress
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- Tested up to
- 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
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Archivarix Broken Links Recovery FAQ
What does Archivarix Broken Links Recovery do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Archivarix Broken Links Recovery offers Multi-level link checking, Automatic mode: Replaces broken links with Web Archive copies using the post date as timestamp. Falls back to removing links when archive is unavailable, Manual mode: Full control — review each broken link and choose the action, Internal link checking: Validates internal links against WordPress database and HTTP verification and Background processing: Scans run in the background without blocking your site.
How many active installs does Archivarix Broken Links Recovery have?
WordPress.org reports 200+ active installs for Archivarix Broken Links Recovery as of September 7, 2026.
Is Archivarix Broken Links Recovery still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on May 24, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 7.0.4.
Is Archivarix Broken Links Recovery free?
Archivarix Broken Links Recovery is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.